Timeline of events showing Napoleon’s rise to power1.Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer elaborate Old Major’s ideas into a system of thought called Animalism. 2.After the pigs manage to milk the cows of five buckets of “frothing creamy milk,” the animals go off to the hayfield to begin the harvest and the pigs, including Napoleon, stay behind and drink all of the milk. 3.Napoleon says it is more important to educate the young than those who are already grown up, and he takes the nine puppies that are born right after the harvest away from their mothers for education, secluding them in a loft until the rest of the farm has pretty much forgotten that they exist. 4.A rivalry between Snowball and Napoleon is evident. Napoleon is very popular with the sheep, which start chanting “Four legs good, two legs bad” in the middle of all of Snowball’s important Speeches. 5.While Snowball was working on the plans for the windmill, Napoleon arrived unexpectedly to examine the plans, “relived” himself on them, and walked out without saying a word. 6. At the next meeting, before the windmill idea was put to a vote, Snowball starts an eloquent speech for the windmill and knowing Snowballs’ idea for the windmill would probably win, Napoleon summoned the dogs he stole before and nine vicious dogs charged into the barn heading straight toward Snowball, eventually chasing him off the farm. 7.Afterwards, Squealer was sent around the farm to explain that Napoleon taking leadership was for the good of the animals and not a pleasure to Napoleon himself. Squealer lied.

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1945. He had a lot of difficulty getting it published due to its
underlying criticism of the political situation in Russia at the time.
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farm, Mr.Jones, comes into conflict with the animals. The animals
rebel, and finally scare him away. Two of the strongestanimals,
Napoleon and Snowball (two pigs), think that they can run the farm.
Napoleon:
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the early stages of the Revolution. Snowball had many ideas about how
the Farm should be run but he came into conflict with Napoleon over
many of them. Napoleon, was a shrewd pig who could see that he could
not carry on working with Snowball. This was shown when the two of
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high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before"
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Cruel whips no more shall crack.
*Riches more than mind can picture*,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.
*Bright will shine the fields of England*,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its...

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Movie Analysis
AnimalFarm
By George Orwell
Submitted by:
Algerd Alvar Moscosa
II – BSPT
October 15, 2012
In a four-cornered room I sat before human beings whose thoughts were like as moving electrons decoding hidden mysteries behind collection of pictures. It came in a blink of an eye that the place where I was, suddenly turn into black and rays of light shattered from a box in front of me. After which rays turned into moving pictures that fascinates the eye triggering synapses and neurons for production. As I gather and puzzle out those moving pictures held by the tiny box, it came to be a portrait of farmanimals struggling to free from human colonization.
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment todemocratic socialism.[2][3]AnimalFarm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.[1]Orwell, a democratic socialist,[2] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.[3] The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
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